The Works of William Paley: With a Life of the Author, Volume 5Thomas Tegg, 1825 |
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... human solicitude affects not them in any manner whatever . It cannot be without its use to inquire into the causes of a levity of temper , which so effectually ob- structs the admission of every religious influence , and which I should ...
... human solicitude affects not them in any manner whatever . It cannot be without its use to inquire into the causes of a levity of temper , which so effectually ob- structs the admission of every religious influence , and which I should ...
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... human understanding ; secondly , the nature of those subjects concerning which religion treats , so remote from our senses , so different from our experience , so above and beyond the ordinary train and course of our ideas ; and then ...
... human understanding ; secondly , the nature of those subjects concerning which religion treats , so remote from our senses , so different from our experience , so above and beyond the ordinary train and course of our ideas ; and then ...
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... human persua- sion . God in his mercy , and by his providences , as well as by his Spirit , can touch and soften the heart of stone . And it is seldom , perhaps , that , without some strong and , it may be , sudden impressions of this ...
... human persua- sion . God in his mercy , and by his providences , as well as by his Spirit , can touch and soften the heart of stone . And it is seldom , perhaps , that , without some strong and , it may be , sudden impressions of this ...
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... which , though they be human compositions , and nothing more , are of a similar cast with the devotional writ- ings of Scripture , and excellently calculated for their purpose * . We read of aged persons , who 22 SERMONS .
... which , though they be human compositions , and nothing more , are of a similar cast with the devotional writ- ings of Scripture , and excellently calculated for their purpose * . We read of aged persons , who 22 SERMONS .
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... human and of Christian life ; but it is one property of the devotional spirit , which we speak of , to give a particularity to our worship , though it be carried on in a congregation of fellow Christians , and expressed in terms which ...
... human and of Christian life ; but it is one property of the devotional spirit , which we speak of , to give a particularity to our worship , though it be carried on in a congregation of fellow Christians , and expressed in terms which ...
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